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Mayor Sam Adams released the following statement Sunday evening:
Tomorrow, I go back work as your mayor. I know I have let you down and made mistakes. I ask your forgiveness. I believe I have a lot to offer the city I love during this time of important challenges.
Beginning tomorrow morning, I will be back in my office doing the work that the last 20 years of public service have prepared me for. And my pledge to you is this: I will work harder than I ever have in my life to meet the challenges facing our great city. Tough economic times are creating record unemployment, strained city services, and the worst financial landscape for businesses since the Great Depression.
# In the coming weeks and months, Portlanders will rightfully judge me not by my words, but by my ability to deliver results for them: To prioritize city spending to protect vital services such as public safety;
# To deliver on the 500 million dollar economic stimulus strategy to put Portlanders back to work;
# To improve our schools; and
# To continue to position Portland as the hub of this nation’s green economy;
As we push ahead together on these issues, each and every day – with lessons learned in hand – I will strive to regain your trust and faith in my ability to serve this city.
Thank you.
This is me: *does the happy dance*
In Other News: Going to Katrina's house for her birthday was fun but kinda weird. There were people there I hadn't seen in probably four or five years, and lots of friends I hardly ever saw. And then Katrina's former coworkers, from the New Seasons really close to my house, showed up. And even though I didn't know them, I felt in some ways more at ease around them then I did around my old friends.
I think it's just that I associate many of Katrina's old friends (people I met around the time I met her) with a different part of my life. We have a longer shared history, but we don't have as much in common as we used to, and they are people who have lived out in Hillsboro/Cornelius/Forest Grove, all their lives. Whereas people who live in Portland proper, if they're around my age, probably moved here from somewhere else, because they recognized something in Portland that they wanted in their lives. So many of them have a way of seeing things that I have more in common with.
I still value my older friends. I was still glad to see them and catch up with them somewhat. It was just a difference experience. And having a Robert Burns supper is fun--there was poetry and readings in various quantities of Gaelic, there was real haggis (it's disgusting-looking) and vegan haggis (not including the canned vegan haggis I brought). There was yummy soup, and cider, and alcoholic beverages (if you serve them to me in a shot glass and don't tell me otherwise, yes, I will gulp it, even if it is 25 year old whiskey, because I didn't know that! Grrr). Annalee brought her very nice harp and we talked harp. I like Annalee, but if I start taking lessons again it won't be from her. Can't afford weekly lessons, don't want to make that kind of commitment, sorry.
So I've had a good night and now I'm damn tired. G'night, y'all.
Tomorrow, I go back work as your mayor. I know I have let you down and made mistakes. I ask your forgiveness. I believe I have a lot to offer the city I love during this time of important challenges.
Beginning tomorrow morning, I will be back in my office doing the work that the last 20 years of public service have prepared me for. And my pledge to you is this: I will work harder than I ever have in my life to meet the challenges facing our great city. Tough economic times are creating record unemployment, strained city services, and the worst financial landscape for businesses since the Great Depression.
# In the coming weeks and months, Portlanders will rightfully judge me not by my words, but by my ability to deliver results for them: To prioritize city spending to protect vital services such as public safety;
# To deliver on the 500 million dollar economic stimulus strategy to put Portlanders back to work;
# To improve our schools; and
# To continue to position Portland as the hub of this nation’s green economy;
As we push ahead together on these issues, each and every day – with lessons learned in hand – I will strive to regain your trust and faith in my ability to serve this city.
Thank you.
This is me: *does the happy dance*
In Other News: Going to Katrina's house for her birthday was fun but kinda weird. There were people there I hadn't seen in probably four or five years, and lots of friends I hardly ever saw. And then Katrina's former coworkers, from the New Seasons really close to my house, showed up. And even though I didn't know them, I felt in some ways more at ease around them then I did around my old friends.
I think it's just that I associate many of Katrina's old friends (people I met around the time I met her) with a different part of my life. We have a longer shared history, but we don't have as much in common as we used to, and they are people who have lived out in Hillsboro/Cornelius/Forest Grove, all their lives. Whereas people who live in Portland proper, if they're around my age, probably moved here from somewhere else, because they recognized something in Portland that they wanted in their lives. So many of them have a way of seeing things that I have more in common with.
I still value my older friends. I was still glad to see them and catch up with them somewhat. It was just a difference experience. And having a Robert Burns supper is fun--there was poetry and readings in various quantities of Gaelic, there was real haggis (it's disgusting-looking) and vegan haggis (not including the canned vegan haggis I brought). There was yummy soup, and cider, and alcoholic beverages (if you serve them to me in a shot glass and don't tell me otherwise, yes, I will gulp it, even if it is 25 year old whiskey, because I didn't know that! Grrr). Annalee brought her very nice harp and we talked harp. I like Annalee, but if I start taking lessons again it won't be from her. Can't afford weekly lessons, don't want to make that kind of commitment, sorry.
So I've had a good night and now I'm damn tired. G'night, y'all.
